Spring RTS Engine

Inspired by this topic I have decided to make a thread with all my widgets hosted with descriptions for the community.


My Metal Maker Widget v2.62
(TheFatController, [LCC]jK)

- Automatically controls individual metal makers to keep your energy hovering at 50% with little pingpong. (the target level can be changed).
- Always uses more efficient metal makers first.
- Always gives priority to non-metal maker energy use.
- Turns off metal makers when you have full metal.

/luaui energyhover 0.5 - Sets the desired energy target
/luaui forcestall - turns on all metalmakers until you estall

- Please disable any and all other metal maker widgets before using this, they will intefere with it and it wont work very well

http://pw3n.net/widgets/unit_improved_metal_maker.lua



Display DPS v1.1
(TheFatController, trepan)

- Shows damage done to allied units (or all units in replay mode) in Worms style white floating numbers.
- Also shows EMP damage.

- Can't show damage done to enemies in a normal game as that information is not available to luaui.
- Extract the zip file to spring/luaui/

http://pw3n.net/widgets/gui_display_dps.zip



Unit Mover
(TheFatController)

- Allows combat engineers to build multiple units with "Repeat" set to ON by moving finished units out of the way.
- Combat engineers must be set to build in at least 2 spots for this to work.

http://pw3n.net/widgets/cmd_unit_mover.lua



Factory Kickstart
(TheFatController)

- Replaces the default "Move" order from factories with "Move,Fight" making builders auto reclaim nearby trees and repair stuff and makes normal units be more aggressive when they leave the factory.

http://pw3n.net/widgets/unit_factory_kickstart.lua



Don't Shoot
(TheFatController, quantum)

- Automatically sets the commander to "Hold Fire" when cloaked

http://pw3n.net/widgets/unit_dontshoot.lua



Emotes
(TheFatController)

- Allows you to display every emotion imaginable with a set of specially crafted drawing macros.
- /luaui emotelist for the commands.
- /luaui emotename to draw it at mouse cursor.

http://pw3n.net/widgets/cmd_emotes.lua



Auto Mine Widget (alpha/abandoned)
(TheFatController)

What the widget should do:
- Automatically sends minelayers to mine locations where enemies enter your LOS when the coast is clear.
- Automatically replaces destroyed mines.

What the widget actually does:
- Randomly lays mines in places that confuse and anger your allies.
- Uses too much of your CPU.
- Sends minelayers to their death or gets them stuck trying to build a mine somewhere they cant reach.

- Select a minelayer and use "/luaui automine cormine3" or whatever the mine name you want it to lay is, a red "M" will appear on the unit and the fun begins - use the "Stop" command to turn it off.

http://pw3n.net/widgets/cmd_auto_mine.lua


Factory Autorepeat
(TheFatController)
- Sets new factories to "Repeat ON" automatically

http://pw3n.net/widgets/cmd_factory_repeat.lua

I will update the first post in this thread with new widgets as I write descriptions for them or write them.

Please post any comments or thank you bumps here!

I really want the emotes one. Where do I save it on Linux though?

i guess in /luaui/widgets?

I don't know if the directory structure is the same

Search to the rescue... found it (it's "/usr/share/games/spring/LuaUI/Widgets")

Awesome

Thanks for reposting these, I was having a really hard time tracking them down.

how do u save these text files? do u need firefox or something? i no it need to go in the wiget folder, but these are not lua files. how do i turn them into that? i now found out u just make a empty lua file, but how do you do that

How did you make the emotes? By manually adding co-ordinates?

I wrote something in visualbasic6 where I could trace images and it would output the coordinates for the script, unfortunately I lost the program in a reformat

It will be reborn one day!

Factory Autorepeat
- Sets new factories to "Repeat ON" automatically

stop making widgets just for speedmetal

Hoi wrote:

Factory Autorepeat
- Sets new factories to "Repeat ON" automatically

stop making widgets just for speedmetal

Hoi wrote:"Repeat ON" just for speedmetal

srsly?

Hoi wrote:

Factory Autorepeat
- Sets new factories to "Repeat ON" automatically

stop making widgets just for speedmetal

I really like that widget, no matter what map it is.

I almost always use repeat on factories and I don't play speedmetal. Ever.

I vaguely remember playing a 40+ minute game of speedmetal against you and someone else?

I can't believe out of all these widgets finally only factory autorepeat is being discussed

your widget rox. MM is a MUST ofcourse, i also use DPS, dontshoot and autorepeat all the times.

Ty for effort, u did good.

Often the forums get spammed with opinion based disputes which is no directly on topic. I find that spammy. That what has happened here when Hoi accused repeat AI to be only good for speedmetal maps.

There are a lot more of these widgets. It is a pity they are not all listed here.

ginekolog wrote:your widget rox. MM is a MUST ofcourse, i also use DPS, dontshoot and autorepeat all the times.

Ty for effort, u did good.

Exact same here, its hard to play without them once you get used to them. Emotes is fun too.

TheFatController wrote:I can't believe out of all these widgets finally only factory autorepeat is being discussed

that means that the rest is universally considered as good, so much that any discussion is pointless